Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that she does not want to stay in her job if President Barack Obama wins a second term in 2012.

The nation’s top diplomat also firmly said she neither has plans to mount another White House bid nor interest in other posts, such as vice president or defense secretary.

Clinton, visiting Cairo, was asked whether she would stay on in a second Obama term. She also was asked if she would like the jobs of president, vice president or defense secretary. She offered single word responses to each: “No.”

In an interview with CNN, Clinton made clear she has no interest in running the Pentagon or repeating her 2008 presidential run.

Military: Cyberattack crisis would strain force

The U.S. military does not have the trained personnel or the legal authorities it needs to respond to a computer-based attack on America or its allies, and a crisis would quickly strain the force, the Pentagon’s cybercommander said Wednesday.

Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the Defense Department’s Cyber Command, told Congress that he would give the military a grade of “C” in its ability to protect Pentagon networks, but said things are much better than they were a few years ago and continue to improve.

“We are finding that we do not have the capacity to do everything we need to accomplish. To put it bluntly, we are very thin, and a crisis would quickly stress our cyberforces,” Alexander said. “This is not a hypothetical danger.”

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U.S. life expectancy has hit another all-time high, rising above 78 years. The estimate of 78 years and 2 months is for a baby born in 2009, and comes from a preliminary report released Wednesday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 2.4 million people died in the United States in 2009 — roughly 36,000 fewer deaths than the year before.

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